GOD IS INFINITE VOICE, INFINITE LIGHT AND INFINITE LOVE

Meher Baba

There are one hundred and thirty-two tunes in music. The singing,
by an expert musician or maestro, is wonderful. But they are very
rare. There was a blind singer in Delhi, who is now dead, whose
performance was quite superb.

God is Infinite Naad. Kabir calls it Anhad Naad or Infinite
Voice. In each subtle and mental plane, there are seven tunes. Thus,
there are forty-three tunes, forty-two in the six planes, and one of
God's Tune. Even the best and most exquisite true voice of the gross
plane is only the seventh shadow of that voice which is God's, and
which Christ, Zarathustra and Kabir have called the "Word of God."
The voice of the best singer, which makes the rain fall, lights play
and people weep, is only the seventh shadow of that voice which is
God's.

If the tune of the sixth shadow is heard, it will make one
completely forget the universe. This happens on the first plane. If
the pilgrim keeps listening to that note, which is continuous on the
first plane, he cannot go on.

On the second plane, when the pilgrim hears the fifth shadow of that
Eternal Voice, he neither eats nor sleeps. The second plane is far
more powerful than the first. It is called naad, which means tune.

Do not take the examples cited literally. How can it be
explained? The Hindus call the Word of God "Om". If you close your
mouth, you cannot say anything, but you can utter, "Ommm ... mmm ... mmm"  the
seventh shadow of the Voice of God.

God is Infinite Voice, Infinite Light and Infinite Love. On the
first plane, they hear with the subtle ear; on the fourth and fifth
planes, with the mental ear; and on the seventh plane, they become
the Voice itself.

How can you grasp it? Impossible. How can you understand God as
Voice and your becoming that Voice?